As more craft flower and infuser licenses come online, more labels are hitting Illinois dispensaries shelves than ever before. Kanha is one of the newest additions, offering a range of fast-acting and standard gummies and a line of vape carts. I recently spotted the vapes at Nature’s Treatment of Illinois Milan and picked up the Tropical Trainwreck, Creamsicle, and Raspberry Skywalker vape carts to review. Kanha vapes are distillate infused with botanically derived terpenes. The Tropical Trainwreck tested at 87.25% THC. The top three indicated terpenes were terpinolene, limonene, and β-caryop ..read more

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), in conjunction with the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board (MCAB), released the May meeting agenda. MCAB is set to host its next meeting from 3-5 p.m. Monday, May 13. The agenda includes discussions regarding four newly proposed qualifying debilitating conditions. MCAB is considering Ovarian Cyst, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Uterine Fibroid, and Generalized Anxiety as new qualifying debilitating conditions for medical cannabis patients in Illinois. Board members may vote for the recommendation, against the recommendation, or may abstain. During t ..read more

One of the freshest labels on the Illinois market is multi-state concentrate-centric producer Dabstract. Through a partnership with Bedford Grow, Dabstract’s first release focuses on high-terpene extracts utilizing Bedord Grow’s deep library of genetics. I recently picked up a couple carts from the new vape line, starting with Grape Sugar Cookies. The Dabstract Grape Sugar Cookies HTE Live Resin cart is distillate infused with live high-terpene oil. Grape Sugar Cookies is a hybrid cross of Purple Lindica and Girl Scout Cookies. This batch of oil tested at 0.25% CBD, 0.27% CBDa, 15.51% THCa, 5 ..read more

Since before adult-use legalization, the hundreds of thousands of qualified medical patients in Illinois have had only 55 dispensaries to chose from, and the lack of access to specific medical needs, especially in southern Illinois, has forced several patients to drive 2-hours or more to purchase medicine. Senate Bill 3941 would address this long-time concern and complaint by allowing all qualifying patients, provisional patients, and caregivers to “purchase medical cannabis at any licensed dispensary or dispensing organization licensed by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulatio ..read more

The 2-gram disposable vape category is expanding rapidly, and Select is betting on them by building its 2024 4/20 campaign around the release of one. The Select 420K Gold Punch Briq vape is a limited release inspired by the strain 24K Gold. I recently stopped into Curaleaf Weed Street and picked up one of the limited Briq vapes to review. The Select 420K Gold Punch Briq vape is a 2-gram disposable vape filled with distillate infused with botanically derived terpenes. The batch of oil tested at 0.338% CBDa, 87.434% THC, and 91.397% total cannabinoids. ILNJ photos A small black rectangle with ..read more

Change most often comes in increments, and the progress of incremental change is tough to judge without taking a pause to reflect. Before legalization, once aspect of cannabis news coverage I loathed was when professional news broadcasters would snicker, make jokes, or lose all seriousness as they reported cannabis news, a pattern I never noticed with any other news topics. Even if the news coverage was positive, that type of reporting only perpetuated the stigma of the plant. Since legalization in Illinois, though, cannabis news coverage has slowly changed. Saturday, Paul Wilcoxen from WSIL ..read more

The strain Super Buff Cherry is having its time in the spotlight with multiple sightings on Illinois menus, and the latest label to drop a cut is craft cultivator One Day. I recently picked up an eighth to review at Stash Dispensary in Orland Hills. Super Buff Cherry is a hybrid cross of Super Boof and Tropicana Cherry. This batch of flower tested at 0.36% Delta 9 THC, 25.69% THCa, and 28.81% total cannabinoids. Terpenes were 0.95% of the total weight. ILNJ photos Fluffy with a delicate hand trim that preserved some of the delicate sugar leaf, these four large-popcorn buds carried pink and ..read more

Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) Friday issued 35 additional Conditional Adult Use Dispensing Organization Licenses to applicants from the Social Equity Criteria Lottery (SECL). The list of the 35 selected awardees and the next steps for the conditional license period are available here. Conducted in July 2023, all 35 applicants issued a conditional license met social equity criteria. IDFPR states that an additional 13 conditional licenses also are expected to be issued soon, for a total of 48 new conditional licensees under the ..read more

While I’ve been lucky enough to sample all the smokable product lines Daze Off offers, I’ve yet to try the brand’s Taste Buds gummies until now. I recently discovered Daze Off Sour Green Slapple gummies at nuEra Champaign and picked up a bag to review Daze Off Taste Buds Sour Green Slapple Gummies come as a 10-pack of gummies with 10mg of THC per piece and a total of 100mg per bag. The ingredients are corn syrup, sugar, pectin, citric acid, natural flavors, sodium citrate, cannabis oil and fruit, and vegetable juice. ILNJ photos Quarter-sized circles roughly a half-inch thick, these gummies ..read more

After releasing the schedule for presenters, the Academic Cannabis Conference, produced by News Joint Events, is pleased to announce more detailed information about the Entertainment & Cannabis Community portion of the event. The Community Center booth will host prescheduled activities, games, prizes, and giveaways throughout the event, including a Scavenger (Photo) Hunt. The Garden Grove Event Center, located at 1215 East Walnut St. in Carbondale, is set to host the event that is scheduled to feature legal consumption, a variety of new and established Illinois cannabis brands, a full can ..read more